A Research Note on Austronesian Relationship Terminologies With and Without Relative Age Categories

Bibliographic Data

ID7936396
AuthorsJ J Fox (0000-0002-0869-0830, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume93
Issue1
Pages57-71
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOceania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ocea.5360
OpenAlexW4323833903
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

This research note examines the formal patterning of Austronesian relationship terminologies with or without relative age categories. Specifically, the article considers (1) the formal contrast between these patterns, (2) the key variant forms of these patterns, and (3) the distribution of these patterns and their associated variants throughout the Austronesian‐speaking world. It offers a succinct examination of a key dimension of Austronesian terminologies and points to the position of eastern Indonesia as an innovative transition zone in the development of Austronesian terminologies

Austronesian languages · Combinatorics · Contrast (vision) · Dimension (graph theory) · Genealogy · Geography · Key (lock) · Linguistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism